Load codeigniter language variables into an array - php

Question

I am using codeigniter. I need to get all variables from a language file to an array.Is it possible?
Is there any method available like as follows?
$a = $this->load->language('editor');
print_r($a);
I was tried $this->lang->language; But,This will return labels from another language files loaded.

Answer 1

$CI = & get_instance();
$arr = $CI->lang->language;
Or Use following library
Class My_language {
var $language = array();
/**
* List of loaded language files
*
* #var array
*/
var $is_loaded = array();
function __construct() {
log_message('debug', "Language Class Initialized");
}
function load($langfile = '', $idiom = '', $return = FALSE, $add_suffix = TRUE, $alt_path = '') {
$langfile = str_replace('.php', '', $langfile);
if ($add_suffix == TRUE) {
$langfile = str_replace('_lang.', '', $langfile) . '_lang';
}
$langfile .= '.php';
if (in_array($langfile, $this->is_loaded, TRUE)) {
return;
}
$config = & get_config();
if ($idiom == '') {
$deft_lang = (!isset($config['language'])) ? 'english' : $config['language'];
$idiom = ($deft_lang == '') ? 'english' : $deft_lang;
}
// Determine where the language file is and load it
if ($alt_path != '' && file_exists($alt_path . 'language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile)) {
include($alt_path . 'language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile);
} else {
$found = FALSE;
foreach (get_instance()->load->get_package_paths(TRUE) as $package_path) {
if (file_exists($package_path . 'language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile)) {
include($package_path . 'language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile);
$found = TRUE;
break;
}
}
if ($found !== TRUE) {
show_error('Unable to load the requested language file: language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile);
}
}
if (!isset($lang)) {
log_message('error', 'Language file contains no data: language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile);
return;
}
if ($return == TRUE) {
return $lang;
}
$this->is_loaded[] = $langfile;
$this->language = array();
$this->language = $lang;
return $this->language;
unset($lang);
log_message('debug', 'Language file loaded: language/' . $idiom . '/' . $langfile);
return TRUE;
}
}
Call like this
$this->load->library('my_language');
$arr = $this->my_language->load('demo');
print_r($arr);

Answer 2

I know this is quite an old question, but I just want to give my solution for this problem since no answers has done the trick for this problem. (tested on codeigniter 3)
$this->load->helper('language');
$foo = $this->lang->load('lang_file', 'english', true);
print_r($foo);
notice that the third parameter for load method determines whether to return the loaded array of translations. source: codeigniter 3 docs.
hope this helps

Answer 3

Yeah ofcourse its possible. You can do like this :
//load helper for language
$this->load->helper('language');
//test is the language file in english folder
$this->lang->load('test','english');
//fetch all the data in $var variable
$var=$this->lang->language;
//print $var
print_r($var);
$var will return the array. :)

Answer 4

If you want to return language file data in Array than you need to pass the third parameter in load function.
$this->lang->load('header','hindi',true) // filename,language,true